"Zygy" <zygy@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> From the postings above I came to the conclusion that Petri in IT
> Knowledgebase must have been taking nonsense when he said:- "Navigate to a
> shared folder, right click the directory and chose Always available
> offline ect" that is if the contributors are right and a Folder and
> Directory are basically the same thing![/color]

No - you've got the wrong end of the stick. A shared LOCAL folder is never
"offline" - how can it be? And thus does NOT have the "Make available
offline" function. A NETWORK folder can be set to be used offline (Doesn't
matter whether you call it a Folder or a Directory - the pertinent factor
here is that it is a NETWORK folder or directory) because you can disconnect
from the network. A LOCAL folder can never be "disconnected" unless you
remove the hard disk that contains it!

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I am not wrong, although I am a self-taught user I can only follow the
taught clever ones instructions. Read the first instruction commencing "In
order..." on:- [url]http://www.petri.co.il/windows_vista_sync_centre.html[/url] and
tell him he is wrong!


"Gordon" <gordonbparker******.com> wrote in message
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> "Zygy" <zygy@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:OxMmrhj0JHA.5728@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> From the postings above I came to the conclusion that Petri in IT
>> Knowledgebase must have been taking nonsense when he said:- "Navigate to
>> a shared folder, right click the directory and chose Always available
>> offline ect" that is if the contributors are right and a Folder and
>> Directory are basically the same thing![/color]
>
> No - you've got the wrong end of the stick. A shared LOCAL folder is never
> "offline" - how can it be? And thus does NOT have the "Make available
> offline" function. A NETWORK folder can be set to be used offline (Doesn't
> matter whether you call it a Folder or a Directory - the pertinent factor
> here is that it is a NETWORK folder or directory) because you can
> disconnect from the network. A LOCAL folder can never be "disconnected"
> unless you remove the hard disk that contains it!
>
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"Zygy" <zygy@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am not wrong, although I am a self-taught user I can only follow the
> taught clever ones instructions. Read the first instruction commencing "In
> order..." on:- [url]http://www.petri.co.il/windows_vista_sync_centre.html[/url] and
> tell him he is wrong![/color]

No he's not entirely wrong - but there are serious omissions in that page of
how you create an off-line folder.
This is what offline folders is all about:.
Say you have a desktop computer and a laptop.
You want to keep the Documents folders on both in sync.
You set the location of the Documents folder on the Laptop to point at the
Documents folder on the Desktop.
Now, under normal circumstances, you would only be able to see the Documents
folder on the desktop, from the laptop, when the desktop machine is switched
on.
So how do you get round this?
When you view the Documents folder on the Desktop FROM THE LAPTOP if you
right-click, you get the function to "use offline". In other words, the
laptop treats the Documents folder on the desktop as a NETWORK folder.
If you right-click the documents folder on the DESKTOP when logged onto the
DESKTOP, then of COURSE you don't get the "use offline" function

See here for more info on offline folders: (although they are specifically
for XP the practicalities are the same in Vista. Notice they both talk about
making NETWORK folders and files available off-line...)
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307853[/url]
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/learnmore/offlinefiles.mspx[/url]

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